House Tour: Desert Home Blurs Every Line Between Indoors and Out — houzz.com

The concrete wall repeats the texture seen outdoors in the entry courtyard. Its scale stands up to the home’s large volume. The wall divides the stairwell from the great room. “The staircase was a real feat of engineering,” Tate says. The ebonized ash treads slip over tubing welded to steel supports that were cast into the concrete wall. The staircase glass is Starphire, which doesn’t have the green cast of other clear glass products.

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